As always, thoughts and/or comments are greatly appreciated.

This issue:

• Peter Drucker’s Seven Sources of Innovation [Snake Coffee]
  A good example of applying Peter Drucker’s Seven Sources of Innovation to the emergence of Sony’s Walkman.
• Building Snowmobiles and a Fine-tuned Situational Awareness [Law Enforcement & Security Consulting]
  John Boyd saw innovation as essential to winning in a changing environment — be that the battle field of our modern business environment. A skill he termed building snowmobiles.

  “A loser is someone (individual or group) who cannot build snowmobiles when facing uncertainty and unpredictable change; whereas a winner is someone (individual or group) who can build snowmobiles, and employ them in the appropriate fashion, when facing uncertainty and unpredictable change.”

• Operational Excellence – once an enemy, now a friend to innovation? [Innovate on Purpose]
  Operational Excellence is focused on streamlining business processes — reducing variation and waste to try and increase their velocity and reliability. This usually makes it the enemy of innovation. Is it time to turn this attitude on its head?
• IT’s Not about the Technology [Fast Company]
  Gartner researcher Tom Austin on why your head of IT should be a cultural anthropologist and why you should think twice before you block YouTube.